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Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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Description: | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing iconic masks and white robes parading down King Street to Schroeder Funeral Home for the funeral of Police officer Herbert Drege... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Overhead view of bar and crowd in Fauerbach Brewing Co. tavern at 651 Williamson Street, celebrating the end of Prohibition. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
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Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
Date: | 07 1923 |
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Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
Date: | 09 21 1914 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
Date: | 12 19 1936 |
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Description: | View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr... |
Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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Description: | Jenny Justo, 921 Spring Street, saying goodbye to her dog before leaving for a year in the Milwaukee jail. |
Date: | 02 05 1931 |
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Description: | Wilford Rogers, 20, and Leslie Straus, 21, both of Mendota, Illinois. The two are confessed murderers of Albion postmaster, Frank H. Kelling, standing on t... |
Date: | 10 1965 |
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Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Freedom House, which was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sponsored Freedom Center. SNCC Arkansas Project. A child s... |
Date: | 11 1956 |
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Description: | Russell Jones, facing camera wearing a light trench coat, standing with a group of journalists on a street corner during the fighting in Budapest, Hungary.... |
Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
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